I do know I like writing and creating with these characters, but not why I keep coming back to use them, time and time again, in stories.
(The Other's voice) ::I know why.::
Wow. So certain. Okay, tell me why, Chester B Kelly.
::It's because all of us here at the Station, and Rampart, fit together easy and naturally, like breathing.::
Was that something we writers did? Or something the actors did, portraying all of you guys?
::It's kind of both. And it's groovy, man. Why is that?::
It's because you're not stuck on just film any more. Everybody you know, who's in your life, is pouring out of pens now, Chet.
::Wait a minute, we're all just ink?::
Yeah, on paper and on plastic strips which we can play and watch that are called movies. And each of your days are stored on holographic disks called..
::Wait a minute. I'm nobody's Adam-12!::
Of course not. Geez. You're a fireman at Station 51 and you own the place. Everybody on my end, knows that.
::Good. Because I like it that way.::
Look, Chet. Here's my point. You can read just about anything in books, right?
::Well, I don't read many. But I can wrap my head around that lightbulb, it jives.::
There are thousands of us resuscitating your life, and your world, every day. And I am just one of these doing that. It's an incredible thought.
::So that's why I'm so tired.::
(Laughing) You can't get tired, Chet. We do.
::And why I feel like I've been wrung through a ringer?::
Do you stay that way?
::No.::
Then it's not a problem to worry about. It's all writer's stuff. We keep you coming back, if not one day, on another day, in a different story.
::Listen! Nobody controls me! Well, except for maybe Cap. Everybody jumps when he's around.::
Then maybe all of you, as characters I watch, write for, and think about, control me. And others like me.
:: Hmm. I'm here. You're there, so you claim. Maybe this is because the ten of us, and all of you, fit together so well, in another cool way, that can't be explained.::
Only enjoyed? Ah, now I see. Thank you, Chet. You've given me the very answer I've probably been searching for all my life.
::This thing between us doesn't get old. I can tell you that much. I've never been so busy in all of my life. Same goes for the others.::
I promise we'll keep it that way for as long as we can, Chet. Sound like a deal?
::Only if you let me keep having one over on Johnny.::